Shopping-bag.



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ISAK romrna, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOPPING-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4., 1916.

Application filed February 11, 1916. Serial No. 77,561.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAK PoMrER, a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 111Shopping-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to shopping bags and has for its object toprovide a bag of flexible material which will be durable and at the sametime convenient in handling.

WVith this .object in view, my invention consists in the construction,arrangement and combination of parts as heremafter more fully describedand set forth in the appended claim.

One embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, in which similar reference characters denote correspondingparts and of Which- Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of my new bag,Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof on line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is across section on line 33 of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail ofconstruction.

The main body of the bag a is made of flexible material such as oilcloth, leather or the like, and the side walls a and outer bottom a aremade of an integral iece, while the end walls a may be made 0 like andthinner material and are fastened by stitching or otherwise to the sidewalls and outer bottom part of the bag. The end walls are somewhatshorter than the side walls and the longitudinal edges of the latter arepins are driven into the wooden rods their heads will abut against theend edges of the pockets and thereby hold the rods in position therein.Each sidewall carries a handle (I made of a leather strap or the likeand these handles are movably fastened to the side walls. To this end Ipravide two eyelets e in each side wall which are arranged ina-linemenf. with each other and below the stiffened longitudinal edgesof the side walls. lhe eyelets are of metal or' other suitable rigidmaterial and serve to'reinforce-the edges of the holes out in thematerial. The same are preferably of oblong shape and their holes aresomewhat larger than the width and thickness of the looped ends of thehandles, so as to permit freedom of movement of the latter. Theseeyelets I prevent the tearing of the material which would take place ifthe handles were stitched or otherwise directly fastened to the side'walls instead of through said eyelets. y

The inner bottom is formed by a more or less rigid piece f of card boardor other suitable material of rectangular shape suitably fastened to theinner surface of the outer bottom and whereby the lower ends of the sidewalls are separated from one another.

A flexible shopping bag the side walls of which are folded on theirupper edges to form tubular pockets, stifi'enlng rods removably mountedin said pockets and headed pins driven into said stiflening rod andadapted to securedly hold the latter i position'in said pockets.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. ISAK POMPER. Witnesses: FRED J. GRIESMER, MAX D. QRDMANN.

